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DIED. Abram N. Spanel, 83, founder in 1932 and chairman from 1949 to 1975 of the International Latex (now Playtex) Corp., the bra and girdle maker, who was also a notable philanthropist, mostly to medical research, and a gifted inventor who held more than 2,000 patents; of congestive heart failure; in Princeton, N.J. Born in Russia and reared in Paris until at ten he moved to the U.S., Spanel was probably best known to the public for his habit of regularly buying newspaper space, at a cost of millions over four decades, to promote his beliefs, notably world unity...
...last week Harvester's shaky financial condition forced it to break that promise. The Chicago-based company decided to sell its agricultural division for $430 million to Houston's Tenneco, an energy conglomerate. This means that Harvester, the descendant of a company founded by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the mechanical reaper, will abandon its original line of business. The divestiture will let Harvester concentrate on its profitable truck-building operation. Tenneco will merge Harvester's tractor line with its struggling J.I. Case farm-equipment division. By closing plants like Harvester's giant Farmall factory...
...heart, and was hooked up to a small, 11-Ib. device encased in a leather shoulder bag. The portable system worked flawlessly though there were two breathless 3-sec. intervals when the heart stopped beating, as technicians switched from one system to the other. Afterward, Schroeder thanked the inventor of the device, Engineer Peter Heimes of Aachen, West Germany, and shook his hand. Then he asked for some ice cream...
DIED. Sylvan N. Goldman, 86, inventor of the shopping cart and multimillionaire philanthropist whose fortune was estimated last year by Forbes magazine to be $200 million; in Oklahoma City. Supermarket Owner Goldman built the first shopping-cart prototype in the mid-1930s using a folding chair as a model. The idea, which he patented and eventually marketed, came to him while he watched women using then standard market baskets. Said he: "They had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy...
Incorporating "multiplicity and flexibility," in its inventor's words, the Multiflex has delighted watcher" and stymied opponents of Harvard to ball for years...